Helene Hanff Quotes
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It's up to us to reclaim our creative birthright.
— Jane Dunnewold
The breath of life comes from God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow it.
— Ann Patchett
I don't like mixed colors that much, like plum color or deep, deep colors that are hard to define.
— Ellsworth Kelly
The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire! Hell is in your future if you give in to desire!
— John Green
Why is it that people who wouldn't dream of stealing anything else think it's perfectly all right to steal books?
— Helene Hanff
Talent is the infinite capacity for taking pains. Genius is the infinite capacity for achievement without taking any pains at all.
— Helene Hanff
Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.
— Helene Hanff
What fortune teller would ever have had the nerve to predict that the best years of my life would turn out to be my old age?
— Helene Hanff
All my life I've wanted to see London. [ ... ] I wanted to see London the way old people want to see home before they die.
— Helene Hanff
Youth, hope, and love: To build a new life on a ruined life, To make the future fairer than the past, And make the past appear a troubled dream.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.
— Helene Hanff
Reading takes you on a wonderful journey to places you have probably never been. Sit back and enjoy your journey.
— Marjorie Taylor
I never overcame my conviction that writing for commercial television was a kind of prostitution.
— Helene Hanff
Hollywood isn't a place, it's a way of life.
— Helene Hanff
The first time I went to Helene Hanff's apartment at 305 East 72nd Street, it was 1977, and I was a 16-year-old girl who wanted to be a writer.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
And for at least that moment, I wouldn't have traded the hundreds of books I've read for the few I know almost by heart.
— Helene Hanff
It's against my principles to buy a book I haven't read, it's like buying a dress you haven't tried on.
— Helene Hanff
Get into the habit of doing what you see, not what you know. Human reason cannot foresee the accidents of out-of-doors.
— Charles Webster Hawthorne
Think of the funniest story from your life. Chances are, it was something awful at the time.
— Gina Barreca
Nothing is more practical than a good theory.
— Kurt Lewin
And if love is life,live it.for God is love.
— Seyi Ayoola